Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money and McNamara. The former Defense Secretary could never be persuaded of AMSA's immediate merit. He argued that the current B-52s and the troublefraught new FB-llls could be modified with advance defense-penetration devices that would make them effective into the mid-70s. Further, he was reluctant to commit the nation to a vast defense expenditure (210 FB-llls would cost about $1.5 billion, 210 AMSAs would cost $8.1 billion) in view of the gap between development time and intelligence estimates. Under normal circumstances, it would take eight to ten years to develop and deploy AMSA...
...still identifies itself as Democratic (though it is not necessarily prepared to vote that way in November) compared with 27% who claim the Republican label. In 1860 the party was in such horrendous shape that it held two conventions and ran two candidates against Lincoln. But by the '70s, the Democrats were united again. The rhythm of American politics invariably brings forward new issues and leaders to cope with them. Realignment within the party will create opportunities. Nothing is more essential for the party's long-term prospects...
...hope that the U.S. will hold a birthday party instead of a wake in the '70s, the Kerner commission offers some cogent proposals. The nation's welfare system must be reformed and upgraded to provide basic sustenance where needed and to discourage the breakup of families. The commission urges creation of 2,000,000 jobs within three years, with remedial training where necessary. That may be an impossible goal, but it would get at the largest single source of criminal raw material-the out-of-school, out-of-work kids. Prekindergarten, primary and secondary education in the slums...
...become an occlusion of our best aspirations. It must be settled justly and promptly. True, most of us have never had it so good as under our present Administration. But what was good for most in the '60s is not good enough for all in the '70s. I pledge myself here and now not only to a new day but to the Democratic Decade that will see an end to violence, the draft, ghettos, poverty, inadequate educational and health services, inflation, pollution, corruption and the dismaying concentration of power in the White House that began with a Republican...
With the new liberalities of the current cinema, such antique prejudices seem laughable-almost as laughable as the '60s movies will be to late-show fans of the '70s and '80s. Then as now, viewers equipped with 20/20 hindsight will perceive the depressed, desolated land that bled through the '30s films, the hunger for absolutes and the shrill patriotism that surrounded the war and cold war of the '40s. They will recognize the erosion of supposedly permanent mores and attitudes that characterized the late '50s and early '60s. They will survey the cliches...